Category: web 2.0
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What’s your media platform for knowledge sharing?
I love this quotation from Seth Godin, which is included as slide #83 in Marta Kagan’s new SlideShare “What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later.” The word blog is irrelevant. What’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones)…
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Thoughts about an after school Scratch club
If you were going to start an after-school club at an elementary school focusing on exploratory and collaborative learning with Scratch software, what clever name would you give the club so it appeals to both boys and girls in 4th and 5th grades? Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast 84 inspired this question today.The book…
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Google Documents introduces Templates
File templates can be a teacher’s best friend. I published the article “Teaching With Templates” in TCEA’s TechEdge magazine in 1999-2000, and the opening paragraph still rings true in school computer labs and classrooms in 2009: It is amazing how easy it is to waste time on a computer. Whether a student or a teacher,…
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Places to post video for higher education types
William “Bud” Deihl recently tweeted me a question I thought I’d answer via a blog post. His question was: What locations / resources do you recommend for faculty to place their digital stories for use in higher ed? Before I provide some links, I’ll suggest the first question faculty can/should address is how “public” and…
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Podcast322: Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning (Ingredients 1 – 5)
This podcast is a recording of a videoconference I shared with educators in Texas and Ohio on July 7, 2009, as part of the summer Tandberg Connections professional development program. The session description was: Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipes are helpful, but master cooks often modify those to meet…
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How are you dealing with TMI? (Too Much Information)
I facilitated a videoconference this morning on the first five of ten “Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning” as part of the Tandberg Connections program. The “digital ingredients” we discussed were: Social Bookmarking Collaborative Document Writing Synchronous Conferencing Online Photo Sharing Minimal Click Digital Storytelling I recorded the audio from the session and will try to…
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Making Audioboo locations private
I learned today it’s possible to edit a previously posted Audioboo and make the recorded location private. When you do this, all location information for that particular Audioboo is deleted. By default, Audioboo posts both the iPhone photo you select as well as your location on the planet (via Google Maps) on the post which…
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Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0’s Role in Schools?
These are my notes to the “Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0’s Role in Schools?” at NECC 2009. This was a panel discussion. I captured the entire backchannel for this session as a PDF file. Thanks to Vicki Davis for setting up the backchannel in Chatzy! Julie Lindsey: I covet the learning connections and networks…
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RU In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy?
These are some notes from my session today with Karen Mongomery at NECC 2009, “RU In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy?” You can get a link to these resources by sending a SMS message to the number 50500 and using the text “wfryer” without quotation marks as your actual message. Join Facebook…